Teaching Takeaways with Amanda

In this episode Amanda shares a tech tip for organizing your desktop and chats with the authors of The Interactive Class, Joe and Kristin Merrill. Come grab a takeaway to use in your classroom the very same day! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode Amanda shares a tech tip for organizing your desktop and chats with the authors of The Interactive Class, Joe and Kristin Merrill. Come grab a takeaway to use in your classroom the very same day! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Amanda chats with Ben Bache from the PBL Project on all things PBL, STEM, Escape Rooms, and how you can use his resource in the classroom or virtually with students.  He even shares a way for you to try out his site for free. Abbreviated show notes can be found by visiting www.teachingtakeaways.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In the episode Amanda shares her conversation with Control Alt Achieve author and Google Trainer/Innovator, Eric Curts. Show notes can be found by visiting www.teachingtakeaways.com.

In the episode Amanda shares her experiences rolling out executive functioning skills in a general education classroom. She shares three different note taking strategies to use in ANY classroom. This is part 2 of the conversation. Show notes can be found by visiting www.teachingtakeaways.com.

In this episode Amanda shares her experiences rolling out executive function skills in a general education classroom. She breaks down the process into 3 steps for beginning the journey. This is part 1 of the conversation. Show notes can be found by visiting www.teachingtakeaways.com 24 hours after the podcast is live. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode Amanda shares her experience with doing a classroom transformation in science. She gives tips and resources for how to do the transformation on an almost nonexistent budget while keeping the prep time to 1 hour or less. Show notes can be found at: www.teachingtakeaways.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode Amanda shares 6 easy to use ideas with emojis to increase student engagement across subject area. Sit back and enjoy a piece of instant relevance, a teaching takeaway you can use the very same day! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode Amanda is BACK to welcome the new school year as a classroom teacher. She shares 5 easy to use ideas for the classroom regardless of school model (hybrid, virtual, or face to face). Sit back and enjoy a piece of instant relevance, a teaching takeaway you can use the very same day! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Amanda shares a few Google tools you might not have heard about. She gives ideas for implementation in a virtual setting as well as a traditional classroom. If you are looking for ideas to mix up your teaching, this is a great listen! Notes from the show can be found by visiting www.teachingtakeaways.com. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Amanda shares 3 SIMPLE ideas educators in ANY grade can use in the classroom. The ideas come from the book, The Flipped Differentiated Classroom. The best part?! ALL three ideas are usable regardless of where or how educators will be teaching at back to school 2020. For show notes please visit: www.teachingtakeaways.com If you like what you hear, please leave a STAR review to help other educators find us in the podcast world. Thanks for being AWESOME and tuning in! :) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Amanda sits down to briefly discuss action steps 2 and 3 for revamping the book desert while providing access to quality books for the learners in your classroom. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Amanda discusses the book formats striving readers need access to in our classroom libraries as well as must have genres to support a more inclusive classroom library. The book referenced is From Striving to Thriving: How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers by Stephanie Harvey and Annie award. Show notes can be found by visiting: www.teachingtakeaways.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode Amanda discusses ideas for revamping the classroom library after reading the first few chapters of From Striving to Thriving:  How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers.  A few perspectives from elementary students are shared. This episode is part of a series to help make your classroom library a more inviting space for the readers in the room.  Notes from the podcast can be found 24 hours after the episode drops by visiting www.teachingtakeaways.com.  Thanks for joining for another teaching takeaway! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In part 3, Amanda shares awesome ideas from Play Like a Pirate by Quinn Rollins. The focus of the episode is on section 3: Superheroes, Graphic Novels, and Comic Strips. Ideas are shared with how comics and graphic novels can be used in distance learning, as homework, or in the physical classroom. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode Amanda continues to share out awesome ideas from Play Like a Pirate by Quinn Rollins. The focus of the episode is on section 2: Games. Ideas are shared with how games and play and can be used in distance learning, as homework, or in the physical classroom. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode Amanda shares ideas from the book, Play Like a Prate by Quinn Rollins. This episode gives ideas educators can use while virtual teaching and learning is happening as well as when everyone is back in the classroom on campus. Join Amanda for part 1 using toys. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode Amanda sits down with Summer Pettigrew from Charleston County Schools to discuss Hyperdocs! Join us for an engaging conversation on how to integrate technology while differentiating the needs of your learners! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode Amanda discusses five different must have books to use in morning meetings. All books and show notes can be found online by visiting www.teachingtakeaways.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Amanda sits down with Dr. Andrew Johnson, literary professor at Minnesota State University Mankato to discuss a simple tweak teachers can make TODAY to reap BIG gains and finish the year strong with students. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Amanda shares her experiences with reading The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough by Hope and Wade King. She also shares why this book is a MUST read for EVERYONE! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Amanda continues the conversation on fantastic intervention tools. The focus are paid interventions to amazon to the house and use in the classroom. Notes and links to the resources mentioned for this episode can be found by visiting www.teachingtakeaways.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In today's episode, Amanda shares an easy to use intervention strategy with educators that's FREE! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Amanda digs into a simple classroom shift to grow learners and increase engagement with the power of choice. A full work up of show notes can be found by visiting www.teachingtakeaways.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

If you are ready to finesse your teaching craft with mini PD sessions on demand, this is the podcast for you! Amanda is a master educator with a variety of teaching experiences at the elementary as well as university levels. This podcast introduces the listener to what the series will be about. New episodes will drop on Tuesdays! Instant relevance on your time with your interests in mind! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app